Mental Heuristics

A good quick read. Basically a list of Mental "rules of thumb." Kinda nerdy cause it's from an AI perspective... :)

Definition: "In psychology, a mental heuristic is a rule of thumb in which current behavior is judged to be correct based on how similar it is to past behavior and its outcomes."

Mental Heuristics Page

I like totally love it! - Phone Tables

Can this be any more genious?   A table for your phone, in such a nice and compact design!

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You Tube Success

About 3 years ago I had taken a couple months off work because of personal reasons.   During this time I had spent some time on the computer as a distraction.  

I posted a few stupid videos that of course I regret and am able to laugh at now.  I even thought about deleting them but there wasn't really any reason.  Plus I had 12,000 views and over 38 comments...and counting!   Why delete something so silly with such a following?  Ha!   That is quite the accomplishment in terms of silly videos in my opinion!

I've posted this video again here, so check it out!

How do you drink your wine?

I like to have the occasional glass of red wine after work, during a nice dinner, or at night watching TV. For the longest time I would always use a wine glass to drink the wine. But I've recently changed my ways.

I was skype-ing with my friend Amanda and she had a glass of red wine in a cup, an ordinary tumbler style glass or a stem less wine glass. The one I sometimes drink my OJ from!

I tried this and actually enjoy it, easier to clean than wine glasses and less chance I will spill it! LOL

Try it out! Let me know your thoughts!

How do you drink your wine?

Would you like to buy my GARBAGE??

If you're looking to buy garbage you can!  Directly from the streets of NYC.  

I'm NOT kidding!!   An artist name Justin Gignac picks up garbage from the streets of New York City and packages it nicely in small clear cubes - Something for everyone, right?

Guess how much?  $50 each!  

I guess it's a way to clean up the streets!

(photo from weburbanist)

CLICK HERE to see the original post from weburbanist.com

My New Bike - Pretty but not Perfect

So I decided a few weeks ago, when the weather was way above average for March, I wanted a bike. We should have been getting snow storms but we were getting sunny, warm day with a temperature above 10 degrees Celsius. This is almost unheard of at this time of year where I live.


I wanted a bike that I could ride the streets and maybe dirt trails. So I had decided on a mountain bike. I really wanted a nice bike from the bike store in my city but I didn't want to spend $600 or more. I knew I hadn't planned on going on really rugged terrain with my bike so a really good quality wasn't absolutely necessary. Also being worried that I wouldn't actually get into bike riding I didn't want to drop that kinda cash right away. If I end up liking it and want to stick with it either next year or in a couple years I'll get a nice one.

So I looked at all the big box stores in my area (Walmart, Canadian Tire, Sportchek etc) and the smaller shops that might sell a bike for me. I saw a couple and almost bought one if it wasn't for its flaws and problems. Think extremely warped front tire!

I was getting frustrated.

My boyfriend liked my idea and bought himself a bike the first day we went looking. I wanted mine now! After all, it was my idea to get bikes. LOL!
So I was getting more and more frustrated. I live in a border city (US / Canada). I thought about looking "across the river" in the US for a bike at the sports store.

I was hopeful but not expecting anything, a lot of places still haven't gotten their bikes yet this year due to how early it is for bike season.

Anyways, at this sports store I found a bike that was green and silver.  It was a Mongoose Spear. It had the certain features I wanted (easy remove wheel, easy move seat, shifters, etc). The bike was a men’s bike but it was comfortable! And the price wasn't bad, what I had planned on spending. As I was contemplating this purchase the manager standing nearby. The manager said the bike was actually $100 cheaper than the lowest price on the bike.

SOLD!!!

At that price I couldn't get a better bike, and the price was too good to pass up.

Again, I mentioned I wasn't going for perfection or top of the line, just a temporary solution to get me into biking.  I like my bike. I don't love it. It's pretty but not perfect.   I've gone for a ride a couple times and forgot how much fun riding a bike is. I think it had been 10 years since I last rode one!

I'm now looking forward to buying a nicer bike at the bike shop here in the city.

Chronicles of a Facebook Application Addict - Part 2 - Kung Fu Cookie

I had to get up early this morning to get my CHI and use the lightside. LOL  If you know what this means you might an addict.

This is the second game I'll discuss that has gotten me addicted. It's a fairly new game and I was introduced to it by Peel-a-Meal.

What you're basically doing is chopping open fortune cookies with chopsticks. In each fortune cookie is either CHI, YEN, Apothecary items, Special Items or Nothing.  Each item means something. For every 1 CHI you get to open another cookie. With then YEN you can buy things, such as chopsticks. With the YEN you'll also need it for times when you break your chopsticks and need to repair them.

Sometimes when you kung fu you'll hurt yourself. I usually get a splinter from the chopsticks. HAHA.
You can either wait the alotted time and heal yourself or you can pay someone to heal you using YEN
and/or Apothecary items you've uncovered with your Kung Fu-ing of the cookies.

You get so many CHI every couple hours and they expire if you don't use them in time, so get
chopping!!  

Also another way to earn more CHI is to add training partners (friends). You get extra CHI for every person you add and the more training partners you have, the higher your CHI bonus is every few hours.

So that's basically it, you'll have to try it out yourself to see what else this game has to offer.
But be careful it's addicting!

-FAA (Facebook Application Addict)